Textile board and method of making the same



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M. S. NEAR TEXTILE BOARDAND METHOD OF MAKING THE sun:

Filed Oct. 2 1923 /AW" ll Wi y A Patented Feb. 10, 1925.

MERVIN SYLVESTER NEAR. OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

TEXTILE BOARD AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Application filed October 20, 1923.

Z '0 all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, Mum IN Srnvnsrnn NEAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Textile Boards and Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This improvement relates to such boards as are used in textile mills and elsewhere for winding cloth into packages for commercial handlingQ The improvement relates particularly to textile boards which are constructed of pasteboiard or similar sheet-form material.

In this trade, it is desirable that these boards be of light weight, in order to avoid excessive freight and in order to avoid excessive pressure on the cloth or other fabric which is wrapped around the board. It is the custom to stack or pile such paclrages upon each other. By this meanspressure of the upper packages is exerted upon the lower packages. If weight is added to the pile by heavy boards, pressure on the fabric is increased. Many of these fabrics are delicute and easily injured by such pressure. This is particularly true of the more valuable fabrics. Hence the pecuniary loss through damaging of such fabrics is large.

Furthermore, such board must be of a shape best calculated to avoid bruising or otherwise physically injuring the fabric. The external shape of the board must be suited to best support the fabric in this respect; and the board must have sufficient strength to maintain that desirable shape. Its structure must be such as to avoid collasping or breaking any part, particularly along the edges.

Furthermore, it is desirable that the construction of such a board permit its economical manufacture. Very large numbers of textile boards are used in this industry and it is desirable that theindustry be not burdened with unnecessary expense.

It is the object of this invention to pro duce a board and method ofmanufacture meeting the above recited conditions and requirements.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective of a textile board embodying my improvement;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section;

Serial No. 669,854.

constitute a major member of the finished board. Extending parallel to the length of the finished board, firm rib strips, B, of sheet-form material are placed at opposite sides of the sheet, A, to form longitudinal ribs in the finished structure. These strips are of a width suited to give the finished board plus the other members, named below, the desired thickness. These strips, B, are placed perpendicularly to the sheet, A, and the edges of the strips which meet the sheet, A, are glued to the sheet. Every strip at one side of the sheet, A, is preferably put in the same plane with another strip at the opposite side of the sheet, A. Thus the strips are arranged in pairs. The pairs of strips are spaced from each other at such distances as will tend to give the finished board the required strength. Near each side edge of the sheet, A, are placed a pair of these strips in such position as to make possible the rounding or curving of the edge of the finished board. That distance is approximately equal to the width of one of the strips, B.

When the strips, B, have been thus placed and glued to the sheet, A, the outer edges of the strips, B, are joined to each other by relatively thin connecting sheets, C, of suitable material, preferably sheets of ordinary paper of moderate firmness or strength. Each such connecting sheetis wide enough to extend across all the strips, B, at one side of the sheet, A. Each of these sheets, C, is secured by adhesive to the edges of the strips, B, against which it rests.

When the adhesives by which the sheet, A, the strips, B, and the sheets, 0, are joined has hardened or set, the outer or enveloping member, D, which forms the exterior surface of the finished board, is applied. This enveloping member, I), is composed of pasteboard or similar sheet-form material having considerable firmness but adapted to be folded around the'structure formed by the sheet, A, the strips, B, and the connecting sheets, G. The member, B, is of a width to permit such folding and make its longitudinal edges meet, whereby a smooth or even joint is formed and the forming of a ridge or rib is avoided, it being, (as above stated, desirable that the finished board present an even or smooth exterior surface against which the fabric Wound, around the board, will lie.

This member, I), is secured by glue or other adhesive to the connecting sheets, C, and preferably also to the side edges of the sheet, A. In the finished structure, the sheets, C, connect the strips, B, and also make a foundation against which the inner face of the member, D, bears and is glued. Thus the sheets, C, form a strengthening auxiliary for the enveloping member, D, and one of the sheets, C, forms a foundation for the longitudinal edges of the enveloping member, D.

By placing the outer ribs, B, at a distance from the outer edges of the sheet, A, equalling the Width of one of said strips, the edges of the finished board are rounded so as to be substantially sen'ii-circular in transverse cross section; or We may say that each edge of the finished board is substantially semi-cylindrical. This form, as above in dicated, is best adapted to support the te. tile fabric Without straining or bruising or wrinkling.

This finished board embodies a relatively small amount of material. Hence it is of light weight, Yet its structure is such as to make it strong.

I claim as my invention:

1. A cloth board comprising a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a foundation, relatively rigid rib strips spaced from each other perpendicularly to the middle sheet and lengthwise of the board and having their edges joined to the middle sheet by adhesive, connecting sheets lying over and joined by adhesive to the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips, and an enveloping member surrounding the middle sheet, rib strips, and connecting sheets, substantially as described.

2.. A cloth board comprising a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a foundation, relatively rigid rib strips spaced from each other perpendicularly to the middle sheet and lengthwise of the board and having their edges joined to the middle sl'ieet by adhesive, connecting sheets lying over and joined by adhesive to the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips, an enveloping mem ber si'irrounding the middle sheet, rib strips, and connecting sheets and joined byadhesive to the connecting sheets, substantially as described.

3. A cloth board comprising a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a foundation, relatively rigid rib strips spaced from each other perpendicularly to the middle sheet and lengthwise of the board and having their edges joined to the middle sheet by adhesive, connecting sheets lying over and joined by adhesive to the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips, an enveloping member surrounding the middle sheet, rib strips, and connecting sheets and joined by adhe sive to the connecting sheets and to the lon gitudinal edges of the middle sheet, substantially as described.

4. A cloth board comprising a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a foundation, relatively rigid rib strips spaced from each other perpendicularly to the middle sheet and lengthwise of the board and having their edges joined to the middle sheet by adhesive, connecting sheets lying over and joined by adhesive to the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips, an enveloping member surrounding the middle sheet, rib strips, and connecting sheets, the longitudinal edges of the enveloping member meeting on one of the connecting sheets, substantially as described.

5. The herein described method of constructing a textile board, which method consists in placing relatively rigid rib strips on and perpendicular to the sides of a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a fonndation and joining the inner longitudinal edges of the rib strips to the middle sheet by adhesive, then laying connecting sheets over the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips and joining said sheets to said edges by adhesive, and then applying the enveloping member around the structure formed by the middle sheet, the rib strips, and con necting sheets, the longitudinal edges of the enveloping member meeting on one of the connecting sheets, and joining the envelop iug member to the connecting sheets by adhesive, substantially as described.

6. The herein described method of con structing a textile board, which method con sists in placing relatively rigid rib strips on and perpendicular to the sides of a relatively rigid middle sheet constituting a foundation and joining the inner longitudinal edges of the rib strips to the middle sheet by adhesive, then laying connecting sheets over the outer longitudinal edges of the rib strips and joining said sheets to said edges by adhesive, and then applying an enveloping member around the structure formed by the middle sheet, the rib strips, and connecting sheets. and joining the enveloping member to the connecting sheets by adhesive, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name, this 15th day of October, in the year one tl'iousand nine hundred and twentythree.

MERVIN SYLVESTER NEAR. 

